We are still in the Barstow inferno although it was cooler today than yesterday. Yesterday the temperature was around 111 but today it was a much-improved 106. We hung pretty close to our air conditioned trailer for most of the day but serious boredom set in late in the afternoon. We decided to go for a spin around the local area in search of a liquor store.
We left our very rural digs at Shady Lane RV Camp and got on Old Highway 58 (there doesn’t seem to be a New Highway 58 anywhere near) for a short foray into town or what we thought was town. Like other similar municipalities we have been to like Barstow, we noted many types of strange Americana due to the nature of people that live in places like this, large yards full of wrecked or possibly operable but ugly cars and trucks, many abandoned trailer houses dissolving into the desert landscape, burned out residences with considerable vegetation in the former living rooms, yards almost completely filled with old trash and virtually no landscaping anywhere. Landscape areas we did find are landscaped with rocks of many different sizes. Other than some Palo Verde and mesquite shrubs, there appears to be no planting of green stuff. Flowers are right out.
We found a liquor store so we were able to consider our trip a success.